What's a DAT file and Is there a diff b/w DVDRW and CDRW?

[EvilLitoGurl]

Hi! I want to burn this movie that is in a .dat format so that I can watch it on a DVD player. (How do I do that?)

I have a CDRW thingie so I can do that? Thanks alot!!

[Movie555]

A .dat file is usually an mpeg-1 file formatted for VCD. Nero will burn these directly to CD as a VCD for use on a standard DVD player. Your CDRW can do this.

DVD-RW is a writable DVD format that costs arounf $600 for the writer and $10 per disc. The obvious upside is 4.7 GB per disc instead of a CD's 0.65 GB per disc.